The choice of Gujarat Titans was paid to pay a blacksil dull track as Mumbai could not be adapted to Indians, and lost steam in the chase.
Parthiv Patel, assistant coach of Gujarat Titans, mentioned during the first innings that there was a deliberate option from his team to select a black-mud pitch in Ahmedabad, which is a slow side, where the ball could stop a touch as Indians of Mumbai, he felt that he was used more for red-khurdare tracks. With not coming on the ball, Mumbai will struggle more than its team. He proved to be correct as wheels were chased in the second half as the 197-Run target proved to be 36 runs from them.
Prasad sparkles
At the end of Chase’s eight overs, Timeout triggered interesting scenes. There were 69 for Mi2. Unexpectedly, GT coach Ashish Nehra was out of there, who was distanced by Kagiso Rabada and Prasad Krishna from passion. Surprisingly, Rohit Sharma of MI, who had lost his stump for a fried offcover peach with Mohammad Sirj, was interacting with Suryakumar Yadav and Tilak Verma.
Rohit kept looking at the scorecard and tells them something; One can only read “Barvan Over” (12th over). In the next 3 overs, Mumbai really chased and controlled the nerves, scoring 28 runs without any risk. In the 12th over, despite taking deep breaths and calm, despite the arguments of Surya, Tilak went slow to a large Hiq at a slow pace and widened for a long time. Soon, Robin Minz fell, Sai Kishore was less third and the equation at that point read 89 with 42 balls. It is worth doing, but this is where Mumbai succumbed to the brilliant disciplined bowling of black clay devil and GT.
Partnership broke
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In the next time, where Nehra Nehraji was happening, the equation read 85 out of 36 balls. Just before that, Prasad gave just 6 runs from his two overs seizing control for his team. The pressure on Hardik was shown when resumed, which joined a faceoff with Sai Kishore, saying words and proceeded to stare at the spinner, who did not return and maintained eye contact.
Hardik continued to struggle for touch, just one out of four balls in the 16th over, because the fame was mixing the speed by killing the right areas. And kept away from the strike, Suryakumar was sucked by a beautiful slow cutter from the offerings, which was out for longoffs. Hardik could never find his touch and fell, shortening a slow bouncer from Rabada, where managed to catch Siraj. Game over.
Suderson’s precious knock
This was 63 of Sai Reformson, which set the basis for GT to reach around 200. He knew that Powerplay was a phase to get runs and did it efficiently. Sudhasan ran under the track for the Trent Bowlt, but grabbed its shape well, and brought the entire ball to a straightforward extent with carpets. But it was a good wrist clip, which stood more on it. It was a slow knockball, but somehow, reforms found time with a conservative leg-side clip, a tuck shot if you would, and the ball was taken to the midwick border. To do this, the time was shown for speed-off delivery with that type of shot when he could produce when he could produce. And so it was not surprising when the carrom-ball spinner Mujib-ur-Rahman offered some width out in the fifth over.
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Again, reformson did not try to bare it hardly, but instead tapped it between the cover and mid-off for four. The next ball was full, and was thrown back from the stand for a long time. He will slow down after the powerplay or will not strike enough; At one point in six overs after the powerplay, Sudhasan played only 10 balls. And the strike on it and went to some more overs before getting back its touch. He swipe Satyanarayana Raju for one four and one six before Trent Balt Yorker trapped LBW in the 18th over.
Pandya, bowler, shines
As a batsman struggles to be contrary to his disadvantage and to be suited to the pitch, the bowler fully evaluated the pitch, slowed down his speed, to hit and stop it to hit the pitch; And as usual, did not try to try bouncers to surprise the batsmen anymore. He came to bowl in the 7th over, after which his bowlers leaked 35 runs in the last two. There was a time before bringing himself, and the interesting thing is that he was seen talking with his previous team coach Nehra.
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He had three pace-off delivery, one of them bouncers. Only 5 runs came in that over. With his next, third ball of the innings, he seemed to bowl his first full-fame delivery and it was a bouncer on him. Shubman Gill did not choose a complete bridge option, but with his front leg, tried to guide it almost, but raised the fielder in deep square-leg. Hardik stood at the end of his follow-through with a big smile, and he kept looking at Gill.
Hardik Pandya’s last laugh!
#MI The captain won another mini-fight, this time against Shahrukh Khan
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He later returned to the 16th over and began with a bus-out-off slow bouncer which was pulled to six by Shah Rukh Khan. Hardik’s response said a lot: He indicated that he should have gone out of front. And so he slipped his next slow bouncer, in the third ball of the over, how he really wanted and Shah Rukh had to get out for carving and got on the sweeper cover. Again, a blissful smile settled on the scene of the Hardik.
But all this will be wiped out during the chase as their former team fulfilled the conditions.
Brief score: Gujarat Titans 196/8 (Sai Sudharsan 63, Hardik Pandya 2/29) BT Mumbai Indians (Suryakumar Yadav 48, Prasad Krishna 2/18) 36 runs
